Excerpt from The British Rust Fungi (Uredinales): Their Biology and Classification
It is now twenty-four years since the publication of Plowrignt's "Monograph of the Uredine? and Ustilagine?," and during that long period very great progress has been made in elucidating the biology of the former group. To Plowright will ever belong the honour of being one of the pioneers in this important work, especially in that branch which is the most fascinating and has the greatest number of secrets to unfold - viz. Heter?cism. But since his time numerous investigators have followed in his footsteps, while others have taken new ground and largely increased our knowledge, so that the picture which he presented of the biology and classification of the Rusts has now become, in certain directions, very incomplete and misleading.
The descriptions in the present volume are naturally based upon those in the "Monographia Uredinearum" of the brothers Sydow, so far as that monumental work has been published. Those of all the species of which British specimens could be procured have been carefully revised, and there is hardly one of them that has not been added to or amended. Fischer's "Uredineen der Schweiz," and McAlpine's "Rusts of Australia" have also been found extremely useful. No attempt has been made to give a full synonymy, but merely so much as was required to show the origin and authority of the name used, and to include all the references to the various species contained in the works consulted, especially those of Cooke and Plowright.
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